What I meant by auto shot is I will kill a mob and have some down time while I loot/skin. 30 seconds later I'll target another mob to pull a group and the hunter will automatically start shooting that mob as soon as they assist me. If your option 2 fixes that, that will be nice. Its pretty darn random though, but still incredibly annoying because I wind up wasting a taunt right away.

I am actually going to keep the hunter in the group. I got a ferocity pet so he gains happiness when the pet attacks. I did some more dps testing and the warlock was the highest, followed closely by the survival hunter, then the mage. The spriest I quickly made actually did more dps than the mage, but this was at level 60, so I'm sure it's not conclusive.

Right now I'm trying to figure out if I want to heal with a druid or a priest....and if I want to swap the mage out with a spriest...lol it never ends.